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Authors: E. A. Wallis Budge, Ernest W. Budge, Earnest Wallis Budge
ISBN-13: 9781564596000, ISBN-10: 1564596001
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company
Date Published: November 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiques in the British Museum and author of numerous works.

Book Synopsis

Famed Egyptologist discusses the earliest herbals of the ancient Near East. Gods as herbalists, divine medicines, holy oils and unguents, much more. 13 black-and-white illus.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note
IThe Old Gods as Herbalists and Their Divine Medicines1
IIThe Divine Herbalists9
IIIWater a Divine Element20
IVVegetable Substances of Divine Origin24
VAncient Egyptian Herbals and Books of Medicine26
VIHoly Oils and Medicated Unguents29
VIISumerian and Assyrian Herbals86
VIIIThe Greek Herbals54
IXThe Latin Herbals67
XThe Herbal in Syriac70
XIThe Herbal in Arabic76
XIICoptic Lists of Plants79
XIIIThe Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Herbal84
Index93

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